Amber Heard has made some rare comments on the aftermath of her legal battles with ex Johnny Depp as part of a new documentary, Silenced.
The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival over the weekend and centres on abused women being silenced by defamation lawsuits.
Actress Heard, 39, who now lives a quiet life away from the spotlight in Madrid, Spain, says in the documentary that she “doesn’t want to use her voice anymore”, according to Variety
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“This is not about me. I have lost my ability to speak. I am not here to tell my story. I don’t want to tell my story,” she says.
“In fact, I don’t want to use my voice anymore. That’s the problem.”
But the actress reportedly praises women for speaking out.
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She is also joined in the documentary by Australia’s Brittany Higgins and human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson, who worked with Heard during the trial over comments about Depp published in The Sun.
Heard reportedly speaks about the legal battle, in which Depp sued the UK newspaper for libel for calling him a “wife beater,” saying, “I didn’t understand it could get so much worse for me as a woman, using my voice.”
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Heard testified in court, and Depp ultimately lost the case.
The two actors, who co-starred in The Rum Diary, married in 2015, but Heard filed for divorce the following year.
The actress wrote a 2018 op-ed for The Washington Post about alleged abuse, though never named Depp. However, he later sued her for defamation, and Heard countersued.
She lost the defamation trial in 2022, in which both accused each other of abuse, and they later settled the case.
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